First printed in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June, 1968. Reprinted in the anthology Women of Mystery II, edited by Cynthia Manson, 2002. *Likely the source for most of Chapters 1-3 of .
A prequel story telling of the time that Selena Mead first met her husband, Simon, and how her helping him on his Section Q mission almost cost him his life - and how his trying to help her almost got her killed in return.